First published in 1972, Ann Quin’s fourth and
final novel was a radical break from the introspective style she had developed
in Three and Passages: a declaration of independence from all expectations.
Brashly
experimental, ribald, and hilarious, Tripticks
maps new territories for the novel – aspiring to a form of pop art via the
drawings of the artist Carol Annand and anticipating the genre-busting work of
Kathy Acker through collage and gory satire.
Splattering
its pages with the story of a man being chased across a nightmarish America by
his ‘first X-wife’ and her ‘schoolboy gigolo’, Tripticks was ground zero for the collision of punk energy with
high style.